Letters: Rosemary Haworth-Booth on how she started acquiring works in the late 1980s, when other galleries failed to take an interest
December 2023
New year honours 2024: awards for Shirley Bassey, Mary Earps and Michael Eavis
Author Jilly Cooper and actor Emilia Clarke also honoured
January 2023
From Venice to Margate: world-conquering artist Sonia Boyce brings her supergroup to the seaside
She has notched up too many firsts to count. As the work that triumphed so spectacularly in Venice returns to Britain, the once-uncollectable artist explainswhy she now even has a 10-year vision
December 2022
Another amazing year for female artists. So why are they still stifled and impoverished?
From the Turner shortlist to the Venice Biennale and more, 2022 was another dazzling year for women. But, away from the headlines, a cold look at the data shows equality is generations away
October 2022
Sonia Boyce’s Venice Biennale winner to be exhibited in UK next year
Feeling Her Way, featuring videos of five black female musicians, to be shown in Margate and Leeds
June 2022
‘Indefatigable, curious, 100% original’: female artists on Paula Rego
Her paintings frightened Lubaina Himid; she gave an indelible tutorial to Tacita Dean; and she changed Caroline Walker’s view of the world. Great women artists remember Rego, who died this week
April 2022
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer Photography
The Guardian view on the Venice Biennale: sensuous and serious
‘They are totally smashing it!’ Bernardine Evaristo on the artistic triumph of older Black women
British artist Sonia Boyce wins Golden Lion at Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale kicks off with brightness and joy amid global tensions
‘A glorious cacophony of Black female voices’ – Sonia Boyce’s soul train hits Venice
Artist Sonia Boyce: ‘Paintings are not born on walls’
June 2021
Sonia Boyce review – kaleidoscopic collage that gets under your skin
Eye-popping wallpaper trails across sculpture and space like Boyce’s touch in a layered exhibition whose warm embrace of other artists doesn’t always leave enough room for its headliner
May 2021
‘Strategic misstep’: arts education cuts risk UK cultural leadership, government told
Proposed 50% funding cut for arts subjects at universities a ‘strategic misstep’, government told in letter
January 2021
Great Big Art Exhibition invites locked-down Brits to put creativity on show
People encouraged to make art on themes chosen by famous names and display it in their windows
July 2020
Where are the black voices in visual arts?
Letter: We must address the absence of black and minority ethnic artists from our public museums and galleries, writes Gilane Tawadros
February 2020
Sonia Boyce first black woman to represent Britain at Venice Biennale
Artist caused storm in 2018 when she removed painting of nymphs from Manchester Art Gallery
January 2020
Mary Beard sits for naked portrait in new BBC programme
The academic’s latest TV show investigates the line between art and pornography
July 2019
Sounds Like Her review – singing sculptures and a choir of silence
How does a deaf person experience music? Why are women forced to sing in A-flat? This fascinating female show grapples with the answers – and you may want to sing along
